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doorstop

noun

doorstop is spelled D-O-O-R-S-T-O-P: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, doorstop means “Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of doorstop is doorstops.

How many letters and syllables are in doorstop?

Letters8: D-O-O-R-S-T-O-P
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 78,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is doorstop?

Doorstop appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 78,613th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce doorstop?

  • Australia
  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_doorstop.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-doorstop.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with doorstop?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as doorstop.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: doorpost.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of doorstop

  • doorstops plural
  • doorstopper

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does doorstop mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall.

  2. 2

    A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.

  3. 3

    UKnonstandardproscribedEggcorn of doorstep.

  4. 4

    AustraliaAn interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Doorstop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcale-porte (wedge used to keep a door open), brique, pavé (large book – see also tome)
GermanTürstopper (wedge used to keep a door open)
Spanishcuña (wedge used to keep a door open), mamotreto, librote, tocho (large book – see also tome)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does doorstop come from?

From door + stop.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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